Alexander Gerst’s Earth timelapses (2017 reissue)

This is a reissue of Alexander Gerst’s highly popular Earth timelapses clip, originally published in December 2014. In line with ESA’s Open Access Policy, a new soundtrack has been added and both video and sound re-released under an Open Access compliant Creative Commons licence that allows anybody to broadly use, re-use utilise and build upon it.

Watch Earth through the perspective of ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst in this six-minute timelapse video from space, accompanied by a new awe-inspiring soundtrack by Berlin-based electronic musician, creative technologist and TEDxESA collaborator Peter Kirn.

Combining 12 500 images taken by Alexander during his six-month Blue Dot mission on the International Space Station in 2014, this Ultra High Definition video shows the full beauty of our planet.

Marvel at the auroras, sunrises, clouds, stars, oceans, the Milky Way, the International Space Station, lightning, cities at night, spacecraft and the thin band of atmosphere that protects us from space.

Often while conducting scientific experiments or docking spacecraft Alexander would set cameras to automatically take pictures at regular intervals. Combining these images gives the timelapse effect seen in this video.Alexander Gerst will return to the Space Station between May and December 2018 where he will fulfil the role of Commander for Expedition 57.

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[nash.achiller]

3:10 This is the first time I've seen they point the camera up to capture something else than the earth!
Awesome!

[TheSweetWords]

Amazing! The Music is perfect! Seems to be to good for many people. They still not understand it...

[WopatCZ]

The original video from 2014 was much better because of the excellent music.

[supersongs.dr.]

E S A.... very very mind-blowing video...I like it

[TheNrCoDpro]

Yeah, the music in the original was much more fitting =D

[walterbatch]

Most absorbing observing the countries from the ISS. It would be more interesting if captions would be added detailing the names of the countries etc. as they were observed.

[meshugeah]

Exactly. Mute the video, play Air by J. S. Bach and enjoy awesome earth views :)

[richarddelea]

Why do people complain about every little thing in a video's comment section? You're watching a video showing the Earth from 400 miles up, views that 99% of us will never witness, shut up and enjoy it.

[uh]

Nice video but the music is rather annoying... :-(

[hellnawnaw]

You guys really need some dithering on the fadeout of the title card... sheesh

[WayneJohnsonZastil]

So amazing wish flat earthers would watch this lol but think CGI and this would take ages to do.